Are we back in Russia? Defo northern hemisphere and don't think it's anywhere in North America
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Googled striped black and white road barrier and got a bunch of stock pics that look pretty similar but frustratingly no location mentioned, although they're copyrighted to a photographer with a Russian name
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:38 (two years ago) link
that guard rail is pretty distinctive - not a sideways W shape like most
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:53 (two years ago) link
the first pic has a yellow/black striped tower/chimney thing - oil refinery?
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
jeez - https://www.google.com/search?q=power+pylon+types&source=lnms&tbm=isch
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link
although that particular type with the widest at the top and then narrower and narrower below that isn't something I can find in many of those pylon overviews, apparently
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link
I'm guessing this may be somewhere on the Baltic Sea. That type of lighthouse seems to exist there.
― o. nate, Monday, 1 November 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
that road barrier with stripes is common in ukraine
― micah, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
hint please
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Murmansk?
https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9856794,33.0948002,3a,75y,236.84h,98.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQ3f5F9Uml4uE4z6pmi8FMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
YES !!!
https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9826598,33.0955864,3a,75y,310.18h,90.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smrhk13lnCidCsu5I8f-pFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@68.9860639,33.0960879,3a,75y,254.58h,85.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sujAKG6gpXnAIlhBb_1WQsw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I mean, it was clear from your link that that was THE lighthouse :-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
oh...
https://dissolve.com/stock-photo/Monument-Sailors-Kursk-Murmansk-Russia-royalty-free-image/101-D246-103-494
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
Murmansk it is
https://i.ibb.co/KGxhVwH/Screenshot-2021-11-02-at-16-59-32.png
Quite a fan of this, one step back from ShariVari's link
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
That's very Murmansk
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
Quintessential!
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/M8MfYwJ/cmas.jpg
Tis (almost) the season
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
colonial feel and all the pictures are of white people dressed warmly, guessing either Canada or New Zealand
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 November 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
isn't that rotating wooden candle thing German? (iirc it's called a pyramid?)
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
... doesn't place this picture in Germany, obv
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
Card is in English "Christmas Pyramid."
― nickn, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
And I'm always amused at the thought of the Google photo-car rumbling through museums, offices, etc.
― nickn, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
The electrical outlet is infuriatingly blurry. Can't tell if its US, UK or Euro style.
― o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
This is some kind of museum, right?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
that's a US outlet imo, because the sockets are one above each other, which doesn't work for UK plugs.
also those vestments look popish.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
A cursory google suggests there aren't loads of churches or cathedrals with that single-spire-and-two-tower structure but so far checking museums in the two UK cities which seem to have such a cathedral (Lichfield and Truro) has turned up nothing
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
the black and white photo of santa also looks very mid-century US.
anyone recognize those churches as ... boston?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
If it's the US I'd guess its some museum display about Christmas as celebrated by German immigrants, so most likely somewhere in the upper Midwest. Puzzled by the photo on the right, looks like a Santa standing next to some pianos out on the street? The caption seems to read "(Illegible) Music Store Santa"
― o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
i don't get a german american vibe fwiw (i get that this is a museum or whatever, but those pink vestments do feel v catholic)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
That Santa photo on the right, taken outside next to a large sign. Lifts? Litts? Maybe an old deparment store?
― a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
There's another set of letters in the background, KUM, could be a radio station? There's a WKUM in Puerto Rico
― a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
this all feels like some "here's how pope X celebrated christmas when he was a child" display to me - and those three tower pictures... Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy?
I don't think it's Ratzinger, this is in his childhood house in Marktl, Bavaria (where they have a couple of free standing square towers but nothing 100% like on those pics): https://www.papsthaus.eu/index.php?page=biografie-raeume
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
not John Paul II either https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOizlB4Guq8S5BuN8i-qyBkKkaf1P22OBeFmsa6ifPlIaKtPIoqo-BzmAGJsRXg-g?key=MGlVZW85VWx3Qmo1TlJ2dWppZHhjLTd5WGxIY3Fn
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
That totally makes sense. Though it looks a bit threadbare for a pope's museum. Maybe a cardinal or other luminary of the church?
― o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
a small parish when they worked before they got promoted maybe - but we can't go too far back either - when was Santa invented again? he did exist before coca cola gave him the red suit in the early 20th century, right?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
it's the saddest christmas tree ever as well. a sign of poverty/famine/wartime?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, father christmas and saint Nicholas existed before. but that Santa Claus look isn't too old imho
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
don't think it's a real tree, but in general I love spindly christmas trees
― Dan S, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
the wooden shepherd's cane could be famous, dunno?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
not Father Pio either I think (stigmata dude in italy)
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
it could just as easily be "this is what (priest dude) brought with him from his home land" - turning it into a "could be anywhere in the world" deal. In short, I give up. Can I request a second pic?
― StanM, Sunday, 7 November 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Salzburg Christmas museum / Weihnachtsmuseum?
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 7 November 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
that looks way more professional than the pic we've got, I think
― StanM, Sunday, 7 November 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
that "ho ho ho" got me wondering... Was that associated with Father Christmas in continental Europe forever or is it a relatively recent import from the English speaking world?
― StanM, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
The one label I could read was in English ("Christmas Pyramid" with no apparent non-English co-label) so I assume it's in the English speaking world.
― nickn, Monday, 8 November 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link
I think this has got to be US - English writing puts it in the Anglophone world, and this just doesn't feel very British/Commonwealth. Popish robes a bit of a mystery though. Writing in the Santa photo looks like 'Tafts' maybe?
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 8 November 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
cardinals wear red too - do any famous imported german/european ones spring to mind?
― StanM, Monday, 8 November 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
The power outlets are American
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 November 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
Looks like pianos in the Santa Claus vintage photo? Don't think that helps much
― tomorrow, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
Oops already noted
― tomorrow, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link